Originally posted by: Java Cafe
Originally posted by: cardiac
I have found that lots of things that I used to leave running 24/7 draw a lot more electricity than I thought.....
Bob
I ordered the unit. But, just out of curiosity, what would be an example of something that you did not expect would be a big draw on your electricity? Your computer, perhaps?
i just got one from newegg and love it.
i was surprised to see how much my rig used and started this thread for others -
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...adid=2140807&forumid=1
i was surprised was the washing maching - ~500/700W depending on the type of agitation, a little ass toaster oven - 1KW, have yet to do the dvr and ht setup.
htpc - a 3000venice, a EA380 on a foxconn/nvidia 6100 m/b w/ onboard gpu - ~50W idle (but i took that apart and put the 3000 in the home server along w/ the psu - didn't want to re-configure all the apache http/https stuff so it is drawing a bit more w/ the asus m/b (i think the power culprit is actually the 3dfx voodoo 3 2000 gpu - i needed to attach a 70mm fan to it because it got so hot just idling, need to find a new, cheap pci gpu for it), but saved me a lot of time
everybody should have one of these kill-a-watts imho